Remembering Images: Cinema Thinking the Century
Remembering Images: Cinema Thinking the Century

Summary/Abstract: This paper tries to examine the way in which history is used in cinema to create visual territories of the past that are able to postulate a spatiality of remorse. The attempt to communicate the horrific is built up as a collection of impossible testimonies and dispersed images. The sense of “past-ness” is constructed by a mediating sense of guilt surrounding the 20th century. The analyzed films concern the possibility of addressing the history of humanity by means of the national history of Germany. Der Himmel über Berlin of Wim Wenders and Godard’s Allemagne Année 90 Neuf Zéro are not only about images of the past, but also about territories of history which are spatial symptoms of a sense of ommission towards the Real.

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